EncryptHub’s OPSEC Failures Expose Its Malware Operation

Outpost24's KrakenLabs reveals EncryptHub's multi-stage malware campaign, exposing their infrastructure and tactics through critical OPSEC failures. Learn how…...

Styx Stealer Creator's OPSEC Fail Leaks Client List and Profit Details

In what's a case of an operational security OPSEC lapse, the operator behind a new information stealer called Styx Stealer leaked data from their own computer, including details related to the clients, profit information, nicknames, phone numbers, and email addresses. Styx Stealer, a derivative o...

LOLSpoof - An Interactive Shell To Spoof Some LOLBins Command Line

LOLSpoof is a an interactive shell program that automatically spoof the command line arguments of the spawned process. Just call your incriminate-looking command line LOLBin e.g. powershell -w hidden -enc ZwBlAHQALQBwAHIAbwBjAGUA.... and LOLSpoof will ensure that the process creation telemetry...

‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called "The Manipulaters," a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claimin...

DllNotificationInjection - A POC Of A New "Threadless" Process Injection Technique That Works By Utilizing The Concept Of DLL Notification Callbacks In Local And Remote Processes

DllNotificationInection is a POC of a new “threadless” process injection technique that works by utilizing the concept of DLL Notification Callbacks in local and remote processes. An accompanying blog post with more details is available here: https://shorsec.io/blog/dll-notification-injection/ Ho...

OSINT. What can you find from a domain or company name

We carry out lots of attack surface assessments, parts of which involve investigating information that has been unintentionally disclosed. To help OPSEC people I thought it might be useful to go over some of the key things that can be found using domain and company names. Domain name So let’s div...

Aladdin - Payload Generation Technique That Allows The Deseriallization Of A .NET Payload And Execution In Memory

Aladdin is a payload generation technique based on the work of James Forshaw @tiraniddo that allows the deseriallization of a .NET payload and execution in memory. The original vector was documented on https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2017/07/dg-on-windows-10-s-executing-arbitrary.html. By spawning the...

LightsOut - Generate An Obfuscated DLL That Will Disable AMSI And ETW

LightsOut will generate an obfuscated DLL that will disable AMSI & ETW while trying to evade AV. This is done by randomizing all WinAPI functions used, xor encoding strings, and utilizing basic sandbox checks. Mingw-w64 is used to compile the obfuscated C code into a DLL that can be loaded into a...

Using Hacked LastPass Keys to Steal Cryptocurrency

Remember last November, when hackers broke into the network for LastPass--a password database--and stole password vaults with both encrypted and plaintext data for over 25 million users? Well, theyre now using that data break into crypto wallets and drain them: $35 million and counting, all going...

Exploit for Link Following in Microsoft

CVE-2023-36874 Windows Error Reporting LPE BOF Introductio...

Researchers Uncover Covert Attack Campaign Targeting Military Contractors

A new covert attack campaign singled out multiple military and weapons contractor companies with spear-phishing emails to trigger a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. The highly-targeted intrusions, dubbed STEEPMAVERICK by Securonix, also...

Panchan: A New Golang-based Peer-To-Peer Botnet Targeting Linux Servers

A new Golang-based peer-to-peer P2P botnet has been spotted actively targeting Linux servers in the education sector since its emergence in March 2022. Dubbed Panchan by Akamai Security Research, the malware "utilizes its built-in concurrency features to maximize spreadability and execute malware...

linWinPwn - A Bash Script That Automates A Number Of Active Directory Enumeration And Vulnerability Checks

linWinPwn is a bash script that automates a number of Active Directory Enumeration and Vulnerability checks. The script leverages and is dependent of a number of tools including: impacket, bloodhound, crackmapexec, ldapdomaindump, lsassy, smbmap, kerbrute, adidnsdump. Setup Git clone the reposito...

CobaltBus - Cobalt Strike External C2 Integration With Azure Servicebus, C2 Traffic Via Azure Servicebus

Cobalt Strike External C2 Integration With Azure Servicebus, C2 traffic via Azure Servicebus Setup 1. Create an Azure Service Bus 2. Create a Shared access policy Connection string that can only Send and Listen 3. Edit the static connectionString variable in Beacon C projects to match the "Primar...

DCOM abuse and lateral movement with Cobalt Strike

Introduction When researching lateral movement techniques I came across a post from Raphael Mudge of Cobalt Strike fame. He details scripting an Aggressor Script for Matt Nelson’s MMC20.Application Lateral Movement technique. Reading that post spurred me to make my own DCOM based lateral movement...

DonPAPI - Dumping DPAPI Credz Remotely

Dumping revelant information on compromised targets without AV detection DPAPI dumping Lots of credentials are protected by DPAPI. We aim at locating those "secured" credentials, and retreive them using : User password Domaine DPAPI BackupKey Local machine DPAPI Key protecting TaskScheduled blob...

OpSec. Expanding your search: Hunting domains

In the last few blogs I have introduced OSINT and OpSec, talked about leaky images and using Google Dorks and how to use those techniques specifically to examine your own corporate OpSec. One of the most important aspects is to understand how wide your target expands. Many companies own multiple...

SigFlip - A Tool For Patching Authenticode Signed PE Files (Exe, Dll, Sys ..Etc) Without Invalidating Or Breaking The Existing Signature

SigFlip is a tool for patching authenticode signed PE files exe, dll, sys ..etc in a way that doesn't affect or break the existing authenticode signature, in other words you can change PE file checksum/hash by embedding data i.e shellcode without breaking the file signature, integrity checks or P...

FindObjects-BOF - A Cobalt Strike Beacon Object File (BOF) Project Which Uses Direct System Calls To Enumerate Processes For Specific Loaded Modules Or Process Handles

A Cobalt Strike Beacon Object File BOF project which uses direct system calls to enumerate processes for specific modules or process handles. What is this repository for? Use direct systems calls within Beacon Object files to enumerate processes for specific loaded modules e.g. winhttp.dll,...

Forblaze - A Python Mac Steganography Payload Generator

Forblaze is a project designed to provide steganography capabilities to Mac OS payloads. Using python3, it will build an Obj-C file for you which will be compiled to pull desired encrypted URLs out of the stego file, fetch payloads over https, and execute them directly into memory. It utilizes...